The War Within 11.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Sondrelk]

That was the premise behind Legion Artifacts. Specifically the Windwalker monk artifact. Technically the Hunter Bow drop from Sunwell was the first class specific by default. The first one that was formally class specific was Shadowmorne.

Shadowmourne was useable by several classes though. I do think the Rogue daggers were the fourht properly class specific legendary item. Thori'dal has become a class legendary for Hunters by the removal of stat stick weapons, but still.

[Well Done Steak]

That was the premise behind Legion Artifacts. Specifically the Windwalker monk artifact. Technically the Hunter Bow drop from Sunwell was the first class specific by default. The first one that was formally class specific was Shadowmorne.

Didn't the first ever drop of the leggo bow go to a rogue as a stat stick, lmao

[Cheezits]

I hope we get full unlocked Dragonriding (for the appropriately rigged mounts) and Dracthyr "running wild" static flying in 10.2. That's pretty much my main system desire. Dracthyr NPCs straight up do it several times this patch.

[ChairmanKaga]

I hope we get full unlocked Dragonriding (for the appropriately rigged mounts) and Dracthyr "running wild" static flying in 10.2. That's pretty much my main system desire. Dracthyr NPCs straight up do it several times this patch.

I want to level my Dracthyr but it feels aesthetically bad to mount my dragon person on a dragon to fly around. I'm amazed this was not in from the beginning.

[Cheezits]

I want to level my Dracthyr but it feels aesthetically bad to mount my dragon person on a dragon to fly around. I'm amazed this was not in from the beginning.

I think it has to do with Static Flying itself not being unlocked for everyone at launch, so the Dracthyr wouldn't be able to fly off the ground in current content.

For Soar... I'm not sure if they will unlock dragonriding for them.

[Hitei]

Both SL and DF actual leaks were literally what you described. You fail.

No, they literally weren't.

SL's leak was a screenshot of the store and a screenshot of the Bastion blurb.
The DF leak in question was a low res screenshot of the cinematic.

Why are you making claims about things you don't know anything about?

[Sondrelk]

I think it has to do with Static Flying itself not being unlocked for everyone at launch, so the Dracthyr wouldn't be able to fly off the ground in current content.

For Soar... I'm not sure if they will unlock dragonriding for them.

The only reason not to let Soar work like Dragonriding was on the then likely chance that Dragonriding as a system would only stay in DF, and that in that case Soar would have to be continously nerfed in future expansion where they might go back to no flying until later patches.
Now that Dragonriding is seemingly here to stay, and for that matter old mounts will work with Dragonriding, the only thing keeping Soar as something besides Dragonriding is that it wasnt designed like a mount. Blizzard could easily change that in future patches, making it work like a regular Flying/Dragonriding mount.

[Well Done Steak]

No, they literally weren't.

SL's leak was a screenshot of the store and a screenshot of the Bastion blurb.
The DF leak in question was a low res screenshot of the cinematic.

Why are you making claims about things you don't know anything about?

I was looking at the leak again, is AI able to create high quality lighting, since the lighting on the figures looks pretty high quality

[Raetary]

I'm pretty sure the main dragonflight leak was the image of the printed promo package with the Alex key art.

I don't remember any cinematic being leaked.

[Cheezits]

I'm pretty sure the main dragonflight leak was the image of the printed promo package with the Alex key art.

I don't remember any cinematic being leaked.

It was this.

[Reive]

I'm pretty sure the main dragonflight leak was the image of the printed promo package with the Alex key art.

I don't remember any cinematic being leaked.

there was that image of alexstrasza with koranos (stony tony) on top of one of the pillars in valdrakken after saving him.

Edit: yeah, the one posted above

[Luck4]

Unless this is another game entirely... let the leaks begin? Avaloren heretics maybe? Wrath of the Drogbar?



https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads..._175026295_hdr

I searched using Google Lens, but it only returned random demonic entities from cinematics/art of Elder Scrolls, Magic, Diablo, and other less-known titles. It doesn't seem to be from another game.

It's definitely an Orc. The jaw, nose, teeth, and expression are way too similar, but it's a muted version that we haven't seen before.

Fel Orc for comparison:


We should not forget that Thrall is in the key art, so it makes even more sense.

Humans are smaller than Orcs, but that guy on the back seems to be higher, so I think that is a new humanoid race or a Vrykul/Valarjar who knows?

[Sondrelk]

I'm pretty sure the main dragonflight leak was the image of the printed promo package with the Alex key art.

I don't remember any cinematic being leaked.

One of the final frames is what was leaked. Specifically the part where Koranos stands on top of one of the Valdrakken towers with Alexstrasza.
It was basically impossible to see who stood next to Alexstrasza though, which was why there was speculation about this being a flashback to Alezstrasza as a captive of the Dragonmaw and such.

[Raetary]

It was this.

Ah yea!
Completely forgot about that image.

[Hitei]

I was looking at the leak again, is AI able to create high quality lighting, since the lighting on the figures looks pretty high quality

It's able to simulate it, yes. It tends to not be great at actually applying light logic or color theory. Which means that in a better quality image, something like the light not matching the lightsource's color or direction can work as a tell for it being AI (or just generally less than typical of Blizzard's standards.

But in an image this low quality and obfuscated even more by it being an angled photo, it is harder to tell that sort of thing.

Which is why fakes love to use the "weird angled photo of a monitor" shtick. Because it makes something that in a clear image would look painfully fake instead look more passable.

[huth]

I searched using Google Lens, but it only returned random demonic entities from cinematics/art of Elder Scrolls, Magic, Diablo, and other less-known titles. It doesn't seem to be from another game.

It's definitely an Orc. The jaw, nose, teeth, and expression are way too similar, but it's a muted version that we haven't seen before.

Looks like some random CGI demon to me. We can't even know if it is WarCraft (or Blizzard) related right now. It's perfectly possible it is a leak, but has nothing to do with WoW.

Calling it "definitely an Orc" when you can't even say what universe it's from is rather premature.

[Reive]

Looks like some random CGI demon to me. We can't even know if it is WarCraft (or Blizzard) related right now. It's perfectly possible it is a leak, but has nothing to do with WoW.

Calling it "definitely an Orc" when you can't even say what universe it's from is rather premature.

if it's real, it must be warcraft related. otherwise, why post it here then?

[ChairmanKaga]

Oh so now that we know the name of 10.2 and the raid will seemingly be Emerald Dream + whatever the new world tree's name is related, does it seem safe to assume Dragonflight will have a full 10.3 with a finale raid tier etc? Story wise it doesn't seem like things are about to wrap up. 10.2 feels like the Ulduar/Firelands/Thunder King/Tomb of Sargeras point in the expac rather than a final raid to me.

[Cheezits]

Oh so now that we know the name of 10.2 and the raid will seemingly be Emerald Dream + whatever the new world tree's name is related, does it seem safe to assume Dragonflight will have a full 10.3 with a finale raid tier etc? Story wise it doesn't seem like things are about to wrap up. 10.2 feels like the Ulduar/Firelands/Thunder King/Tomb of Sargeras point in the expac rather than a final raid to me.

The Tyr setup being inconclusive is the only thing pointing to 10.3 now, and it can still just be a bridge to 11.0. I'd say its 50/50, but Launch did both set up Tyr and the Dream.

If the Red Flight is pretty absent from 10.2 then it'll point to 10.3 with them.

[huth]

if it's real, it must be warcraft related. otherwise, why post it here then?

Because somebody wanted to post it here. That's the only reason anything gets posted here.

Something being posted on a free access internet forum is not proof of anything whatsoever if we can't even tell what that thing is.